Substituent effects palladium-catalyzed reactions

Ma and Zhao reported a highly regio- and diastereoselective synthetic method for 2-amino-3-alken-l-ols and 4-amino-2-( )-alken-l-ols by the palladium-catalyzed reaction of 2,3-allenols, aryl iodides and amines (Scheme 16.24) [29]. Carbopalladation of PhPdl to the allene probably generates a thermodynamically more stable anti-Jt-allylpalladium species for steric reasons. Regioselectivity of the amine attack depends largely on the stereoelectronic effect on the a-substituents. 

The second class of substrate of importance bears a CH2 group at one of the termini of the 7t-allyl unit. Until recently this family of substrates presented the biggest challenge because the vast majority of palladium-catalyzed reactions deliver the nucleophile to the less substituted carbon unless there are some special additional factors (i.e., ring size in an intramolecular reaction, substituent effects, etc.). 

The regioselectivity of the process depends on several factors (1) The charge distribution in the intermediate it-allyl palladium species, which favours attack at the more substituted allyl terminus (2) steric hindrance to the approach of the nucleophiles, which favours attack at the less substituted allyl terminus (3) electronic effects of substituents of the allyl unit (4) the stability of the initial olefin-palladium(O) complex. As a general rule of thumb however, in the case of palladium catalyzed reactions, steric control dominates and attack predominately occurs at the least hindered terminus. ... 

Alkyl substituents on boron in 9-BBN derivatives can be coupled with either vinyl or aryl halides through Pd catalysts.22413 This is an especially interesting reaction because of its ability to effect coupling of saturated alkyl groups. Palladium-catalyzed couplings of alkyl groups by most other methods often fail because of the tendency for (3-elimination... 

In the study of substituent effect on the thermal electrocyclic ring-closing reactions of vinylallenes, two stereo-isomeric boryl-substituted vinylallenes 13 and 14 are synthesized by means of the palladium-catalyzed stannaboration of alkynes (Schemes 59 and 60).248... 

In 2001, a palladium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrosilylation of 4-substituted-but-l-en-3-ynes (146) was reported by Hayashi and co-workers [115]. It was found that a monodentate bulky chiral phosphine, (S)-(R)-bisPPFOMe, was effective for the asymmetric synthesis of the axially chiral allenes 147 and up to 90% ee was achieved (Scheme 3.75). The bulky substituent at the 4-position in 146 is essential for the selective formation of the allene 147 the reaction of nC6H13C=CCH=CH2 gave a complex mixture of hydrosilylation products which consisted of <20% of the allenylsilane. 

The effect of varying the triorganophosphine ligands in the palladium-catalyzed carbonylations has been looked at briefly. In general, triarylphos-phines are much better than triorgano phosphites and trialkylphosphines. Changes in the substituents in the triarylphosphine have only minor effects upon reaction rates (//). 

Group 10 TM complexes (110) bearing allyl ligand were synthesized by breaking the corresponding dimer [MC1(R, R -allyl)]2 (109) with two equivalents of free NHC ligand (equation 15). Aryloxy dimer [Ni(allyl)(OAr)]2 (Ar = 2,6-di-fro-propylphenyl) has also been employed for the preparation of NHC-allyl Ni complexes. Since the [(NHC)PdCl(allyl)] complexes exhibited an excellent activity in palladium-catalyzed cross-couphng reactions, this series was extensively studied with special attention to aUyl substituent effects. ... 

In a finding of greater practical significance. Overman and coworicers showed that the reactions could be carried out with catalytic amounts of the palladium(II) complex, and that the catalytic effect was broadly applicable to acyclic 1,5-dienes as well7 In a typical example (equation 32), 2-methyl-3-phe-nyl-l,5-hexadiene rearranges in 1 h at room temperature in 87% yield in the presence of 0.06 equiv. of bis(benzonitrile)palladium dichloride, in contrast to the thermal rearrangement which has t n = 13 h at 177 °C. The cat yst thus provides an estimated rate acceleration of about 10 °. The product is a 93 7 mixture of ( )- and (Z)-isomers, corresponding to the equilibrium ratio. Palladium acetate and tetra-kis(triphenylphosphine) were ineffective as catalysts. One serious limitation is that the catalyzed reaction occurs only with those 1,5-dienes which possess an alkyl or aryl substituent at C-2 or C-5 (but not both). 

It is well established that 3-alkyl pyridines are selectively reduced at N1-C2, to produce 3-alkyl-l,2-DHPs [58,59,60], 5-Alkyl-l,2-DHPs, which result from hydride addition at C-6, are potentially valuable synthetic intermediates [61]. Substituent effects on the regiochemistry of the reduction of A-carbalkoxypyridinium salts have been studied in detail by Sundberg [62]. These DHPs have served as useful dienes for the synthesis of ISQs. Methyl 2-[l-phenylsulfonyl-lH-indol-2-yl]-2-propenoate (62) served as dienophile in most of these reactions [61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68]. Palladium-catalyzed radical cyclization [63], photocyclization [64] or thermal cyclization [61,65,66,67,68] reactions have all been employed to furnish the Diels-Alder adducts (e.g., 63). 

Few investigations have been devoted to the scope of palladium-catalyzed benzylic oxidation. Electron-donating substituents, e.g. MeO, in the aromatic ring have a promoting effect no reaction was observed with /7-nitrotoluene... 

Similar substituent effects have been determined in the reaction of complexes 10 to form palladacycles 11 (Scheme 11.3) [31]. The opposite process-the intramolecular palladium-catalyzed arylation of alkanes to form dihydrobenzofuranes-has also been examined [32]. For this transformation, a mechanism based on a C—H bond-activation process by the aryl-Pd(II) involving a three-center transition state was found to be more consistent with the experimental kinetic isotope effect (3.6 at 115 °C), as well as with density functional theory (DFT) calculations. 

---